One of the project’s goals is to compile an extensive list of resources related to the “colored Carnegie libraries” of the early 20th century and the study of African American history in general. This page will expand as the project progresses.
Users at a “colored library,” 1928. Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs, University of Virginia Special Collections, MSS-3072.

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education. Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their History, Condition, and Management. Special Report. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876.

Mickelson, Peter. “American Society and the Public Library in the Thought of Andrew Carnegie,” The Journal of Library History, 10 No. 2 (April 1975): 117-138.

Moore, Bennie Lee. “A History of Public Library Service to Negros in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1927-1951.” Master’s Thesis, Atlanta University, 1961.

Myrdal, Gunner. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New, London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1944.

Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006.

O’Donnell, Suzanna W. “Equal Opportunities for Both: Julius Rosenwald, Jim Crow and the Charleston Free Library’s Record of Service to Blacks, 1931 to 1960.” Master’s Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

Bettersworth, John K. “The Reawakening of Society and Cultural Life, 1865-1890.” In A History of Mississippi, Vol. 1., edited by Richard Aubrey McLemore, 622-39. Jackson, MS: University and College of Mississippi, 1973.

Buchanan, William Emory. “The Yazoo Library Association’s Significance in History: The American Social and Public Library Movement in the South.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1992.

Bureau of Public Administration. People Without Books: An Analysis of Library Services in Mississippi. University, MS: University of Mississippi, 1950.

Evens, Charles. “Better Library Service for Mississippi: A Study Carries out for the Long-range Program Committee of the Mississippi Library Commission, and the Mississippi Library Association.” Master’s thesis, University of Mississippi, 1975.

Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration. Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

Digital Public Library of America. “A History of US Public Libraries Case Study: Atlanta.” Accessed April 26, 2016 http://dp.la/exhiibitons/exhibits/show/history-us-public-libraries/segregated-libraries/case-sudy-atlanta.

Digital Public Library of America. “A History of US Public Libraries Segregated Libraries.” Accessed April 26, 2016 http://dp.la/exhiibitons/exhibits/show/history-us-public-libraries/segregated-libraries.

Dorsey, James Edward. “The Financing of Public Library Service in Georgia, 1897-1980.” PhD diss., University of Georgia, 1986.